20 Quotes on Native American Wisdom

Native Americans live in harmony with nature, which is why many quotes are linked to them, here are the most beautiful ones.

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I Native Americans they live in harmony with nature, respecting their own ethical code which is based on tolerance, respect for others and the spirituality linked to Mother Earth and all living beings. For this reason, many quotes are linked to them, here are the most beautiful ones.





We had already talked about the rules of the natives of America to find peace and inner harmony and also gods Zodiac signs which have the names of the animals that are closest to the tribes. As happens in European culture, even in villages, the zodiac connects space with the cosmos.

Now let's see some of the most beautiful quotes that can also become guidelines in our daily life and pills of wisdom to remember when it seems to us that things are not going as we wish.

20 Quotes on Native American Wisdom

The most beautiful Native American quotes

Dancing is praying, praying is healing, healing is giving, giving is living, living is dancing

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story (Apache)

Only after the last tree is felled, only after the last lake is polluted, only after the last fish is caught, will you find that money cannot be eaten. (Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux tribe)

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.The trees are the pillars of the world, when the last trees have been cut down, the sky will fall upon us (Sioux)

Our first teacher is our heart (Cheyenne)

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in winter. It's the little shadow that crosses the grass and gets lost in the sunset (Black Feet)

Men come and go like the waves of the sea. Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him from friend to friend, cannot escape the common destiny


When a white army fights the Indians and wins, this is considered a great victory, but if it is the whites who are defeated then it is called slaughter (Chiksika Proverb)


It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand (Apache)

Oh Great Spirit, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change (Comanche)

Life is like a bridge, you can cross it but not build a house on it. (Sioux proverb) Life is like a bridge, you can cross it but not build a house on it (Sioux)

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand (Apache)

When a man turns away from nature his heart gets hard (Lakota)

Remember that the children are not yours, but are lent to you by the Creator (Mohawk)

The earth does not belong to man, it is man who belongs to the earth (Capriolo Zoppo, chief of the Dwamish tribe)

It is not how you are born, but how you die, which reveals which people you belong to. (Black Elk, chief of the Sioux tribe)

What you saw remember it because what you did not see returns to fly in the wind What you saw remember it because what you did not see returns to fly in the wind (Navajo)

The dog that licks one hand does not see the knife hidden in the other (Black Elk, chief of the Sioux tribe)


Air is precious to the red man as all things share the same breath (Roe Lame, chief of the Dwamish tribe)

What is man without animals? If there were no more Indians they would die of loneliness. Because whatever happens to animals will soon happen to humans. All things are connected (Dwamish)


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